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A Spool of Blue Thread: 2/14/2015

Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s.  Do you ever wonder about the people you come across in your daily life?  What kind of a family they came from?  How have they survived the tough times?  How has their family dynamic influenced their choices?  In other words, would you like to expand your understanding of family life by being introduced to one family in a new novel by the achingly compassionate, slyly humorous, and incisively observant author, Anne Tyler?  Then read her newest novel, A Spool of Blue Thread.  Three generations of a Baltimore family—an ambitious builder trapped by his past indiscretions, their son and his wife, a social worker with a heart too big for her circumstances, and their children with their own dynamic forcing one another into roles they’re not really ready to play.  A home built with vision, aging parents in need of a new transition, young people looking for lives that are fulfilling, responsible and especially not boring—all these in A Spool of Blue Thread—you’ll find autographed first editions at Otto’s a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport.